Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Sep 13, 2013

Is It Real or Fake, and Do We Care?

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Sound on, mind and heart open to a new method of story telling: http://k2radio.com/hilarious-voicemail-from-a-witness-to-traffic-accident-...
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Sep 11, 2013

THOREAU, HEMMED IN

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Students and other humans often want to know why writers seem more likely to be oddballs than people in other vocations or lifestyles. If...
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Aug 22, 2013

Gerald Stern, "Bolero" and the Roaring I

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 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/146770 Gerald Stern’s “Bolero” is a rabble-rousing poem that stirs me up,...
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Aug 15, 2013

Mona Van Duyn’s “A Time of Bees”: Manly Men in Half-Rhyme

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Mona Van Duyn’s “A Time of Bees”:   The Half-Rhyme of Men Being Men A Time of Bees by Mona Van Duyn : The Poetry Foundatio...
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Aug 10, 2013

John Ciardi's "Bees and Morning Glories": Attempt Number Two

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Bees and Morning Glories by John Ciardi : The Poetry Foundation     Oops on the last post. I linked to the wrong Ciard...
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Aug 8, 2013

John Ciardi, "Lines": Bee Pirates

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Bob the Pirate Boards the Ship   I don’t think these purple flowers are morning glories, but they’re a rich purple, and afte...
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Jul 31, 2013

Green: Thoreau, the Turtle, David Wagoner

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         In looking for information about Thoreau and turtles (what? that doesn’t interest you?), I came across the site of Dr. Sa...
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